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long, so occasionally only the author and the first few transmitters are
inserted. Let us examine the Muuxuia' of Malik bin Anas according to the
recension of Suwaid bin Sa'id al-Hadathani (d. 240 A.H.). The chain of
transmission given at the Muwatta"s beginning is: (1) Thabit bin Bundar
al-Baqqal, from (2) 'Umar bin Ibrahim az-Zuhri, from (3) Muhammad
bin Gharieb, from (4) Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Washsha', from (5) Suwaid
bin Sa'td al-Hadathani, from (6) Malik bin Anas, the original author.
At the start of each hadith. lies an abbreviated version of this chain:

Muhammad read to us that Ahmad related on the authority of Suwaid,
who narrated from Malik ... 36

Following this comes the isniid proper for that ~ad'ith, culminating in the
core text of the ~ad'ith itself Though this pattern is not uniformly observed
across the wide array of manuscripts, the transmitters' names always gain
inclusion into the text.

i. Conditions for Utilising a Book

To teach or utilise a text, among the sternest requirements was for the scholar
to stick exclusivelyto the copy which bore hisname in the reading certificate,
This certificate was his license: proof that he had attended the relevant
lectures in which his teacher relayed that manuscript." While free to make
a duplicate of his teacher's book or to employ the book of a higher authority
along the same chain, the use of all other copies was strictly forbidden.
Suppose A isthe original author, and his book is spread through the following
students:

Figure 12.4: A, the original author hasL, Hand G asstudents.

36 See any page in Muioatta'of Malik, recension of Suwaid.
37 For details refer to next page.